Care Wear Volunteers

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Aunt Mary's Yarn
This website is a source of low cost Red Heart yarn. A colleague reported that you can purchase yarn for 10 cents per ounce. I used to shop at an Aunt Marys Mill End store in Lancaster. The yarn was good quality and inexpensive.

Barbara Wampler
Barb is an accomplished craftsperson and the winner of prizes for her unique designs. Her website offers preemie and newborn clothing patterns--for those who sew, knit and crochet. She created all of those patterns for charitable purposes and has generously permitted Care Wear Volunteers to reprint several of them in its quarterly newsletters.

One of the greatest joys in Barbara's life has been to freely share her patterns and provide burial layettes and clothing to her local NICU at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. Although fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue now limit what Barbara is able to do, those maladies do not limit her creativity and enthusiasm. She is helping to meet the needs of NICUs across the country by providing excellent patterns for others to use. Over 10,000 people have downloaded her time-tested patterns. Barbara asks that you consider using her patterns to make something for her area NICU (Sarasota Memorial Hospital), too.

Barbara knows that her charity work has been her salvation throughout these trying times and that her website helps her to keep in touch with all of her supportive charity friends throughout the world! It also keeps her motivated to continue to do something worthwhile--creating new designs!

Bernat Yarn
This website has information about the types of yarn produced by Bernat and provides free patterns, helpful hints, FAQs, etc.. You can have your name added to their mailing list for additional information.

Bev's Country Cottage
Bev's Country Cottage is a vast free resource for crafters who love to make warm, needed items for humanitarian purposes or for your own family. Here you will find patterns for everything from preemie hats and booties to senior citizen lapghans and slippers; or kids mittens and cat blankets to leprosy bandages and granny squares. Perhaps you just need a place to send items? Check out the charity listings on this site. It also features recipes, cross stitch patterns, plastic canvas patterns, food storage info., and more.

Bonnie Babies
Bonnie Babies is volunteer organization in the United Kingdom that makes tiny premature clothes, blankets and sadly burial outfits for "Special Baby Care Units" . Members knit, crochet and sew. Participants in the organization also provide support to parents of infants in the Special Baby Care Units. Visit their website.

Crochet Guild of America
A must see site for anyone who crochets! The Crochet guild is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the art of crochet. You'll find the following information and/or services on this Web site:

Welcome letter form the President of CGA
What's New
Learn How to Crochet: Lessons for right and left handers
Frequently Asked Questions
CGOA Information
Information for Crocheter (Activities, Charities, Contests, Publications, Catalogues, Magazines, Spread the word: Chain Reaction
National Crochet Week
Links
Crocheters Anonymous Web Ring
Crochetalk Forum

Don't miss "Links, Links, and More Links" under LINKS. You'll find web addresses for books, leaflets and magazines, business and commercial sites, chapters of CGOA Online, Charities, Free Patterns, Handy Information, Internet Crocheters: Groups, Internet Crocheters: Individuals, Supply Sources, Videos, Yarn Manufacturers, Yarn Retailers, Yarn Spinners and Yarn Stores, General Crafts, and Other Needlework and Fiber Crafts.

Coats & Clark
Learn all about the products and services of this major corporation. Home sewers, knitters, and crocheters will find information of interest. Subsections include:

About Us (History, sponsorship, etc.)
Products (Products for sewing/quilting, knitting/crochet, Embroidery, Crafts, Books, and Patterns)
What's New (New products and colors)
Free Stuff (Free patterns and leaflets)
Sitemap (a visual table of contents)

Craft Yarn Council

"Knitting, crocheting, and crafting with yarns are skills that are enjoyed for a lifetime, whether creating apparel or home fashions for yourself, as gifts, for profit, or just for fun and relaxation. All of the Craft Yarn Council of America's programs are designed to convey this message. In addition to sponsoring an educational program CYCA acts as a clearing house for the craft yarn industry, when possible answering consumer inquiries and providing links to consumer knitting and crocheting guilds. Plus, it sponsors community-based programs such as Warm Up America and Caps for Kids..."

Formed in 1981, CYCA attempts to raise awareness of yarns. Member companies supply much of the yarn, tools, and accessories used in the US.

About CYCA
Learn to Teach
Programs
Projects
Networking
Warm Up America
Caps for Kids
Questions
Monthly Update
Links to member websites

Caps For Kids
Providing needy children with cozy hats to keep them warm is what Caps for Kids is all about. Nearly one million caps, along with other children's accessories, have been knitted and crocheted by volunteers since the program began. the hats are given to non-profit, non-denominational agencies in the communities of the donors.

This site contains the name and address to contact for participating store/collection sites, free patterns, FAQs, Networking, etc.

Designs by KN
Easy, well-written, original knitting and crochet patterns. Kathy has kindly allowed Care Wear Volunteers to reprint patterns in previous newsletters. Everyone liked her patterns.

Dritz
Home sewers will recognize the name. Prym-Dritz provides a wide assortment of notions for sewing, home decoration, craft projects and quilting.

Sewing
Quilting
Home Dec
Decorative Trims
Projects
Join Our Club

If you are looking for creative ideas for today's consumer, check out this Web site.

Kunin Felt
I never realized that there are so many types and weights of felt! This website includes product information as well as patterns. Blossom the Bear is especially cute! Care Wear Volunteers was given permission to reprint this pattern in the June 2002 newsletter. There are other adorable patterns available on that site.

Helen Littrell's Chemo Hat Patterns

Helen has three different patterns for cancer hats on this site. To mail a hardcopy, she charges a small fee to cover copying and postage, which as we all know can get expensive. But the main thrust is to get the patterns out to individuals and groups who will make and donate hats. After all these years of making and donating here in this area that has at least 25,000 residents, she is still the only person interested in the project. You know the old story from those who complain about being bored and having nothing to do--just ask them to get involved in a charity project and all of a sudden they're way too busy. So on the advice of Gail Brown, Helen decided to put up a website and see if it would do some good.

Helen’s sewing patterns are clear and easy to follow. I hope that readers will join her in helping.

Herrschners
I remember ordering embroidery supplies from Herrschners when I was a teenager-many many years ago!!! I remember spending many hours looking over their catalogue. Well, you can still look at their catalague-on the Web or in print.

Shopping Assistance
Weekly Specials
About Herrschners
Specialty Catalogues
International Orders
Customer Service
Free Stuff!
Security
Yarns
Crochet Threads
Embroidery Threads
Needlework Kits
Fabrics
Books & Patterns
Tools & Accessories
Latch Hook kits
Quilts & stamped embroidery
Crafts
Order from our print catalogue
Got a minute?

Home Sewing Association
Sewers, here is a site for you! The Home Sewing Association offers membership, information, free projects, etc.

Membership Information
Trends, Tips, and Techniques
Free Projects
Book Spotlight
Kids Page
Caring and Sharing
Links We Love
Educational Program
The Sewing Thread
Suddenly You're Sewing

LINKS WE LOVE contains a large assortment of information about other interesting links, including Buttons, Buying Services, Consumer Shows, Education Services, Embroidery Designs, Fabrics-Retail, Fabrics-Wholesale, Notions/Supplies: Wholesale, Organizations, Patterns, Publishers, Quilting, Ribbons, Sewing Machine Manufacturers, Trimmings, and Wholesale Fabrics Home Decoration.

Hugs and Hope
Children fighting for their lives have very little to smile about. You can change that by sending them some "Happy Mail." Cherry cards give these kids a few more smiles, a little more hope and a reason to get out of bed each day.

Lion Brand Yarn Company
This is a major supplier of knitting yarn. Order via their catalogue or online. Free patterns and craft ideas on their website.

Mary Maxim
A catalogue and online source of needlework and craft supplies. Yarn, kits, knitting needles, crochet hooks, pattern booklets, instruction booklets, and lots more.

Marcus Brothers Textiles
Fine Quality fabrics for quilting, crafts, home decor and apparel sewing. Available in quilt shops and fabric stores worldwide. Visit us online for free projects, new fabric collections, quilt gallery, fre tips, news, links and more.

Northwest Wings of Love
Monthly craft projects benefiting charitable organizations in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. and Canada.

Patternworks
Patternworks has been called the "best thing for knitters since sheep." Their 80-page catalogue contains yarn, knitting kits, knitting books and videos, knitting needles and gadgets, and knitting software. Patternworks is known for hard-to-find supplies. They have an inventory of 12,000 items for knitters, crocheters, and even needlepoint.

Patternworks was kind enough to include an article about Care Wear in one of their catalogues. Prospective Care Wear volunteers from across the country wrote to me for patterns and information about making preemie hats, blankets, etc. Thanks to that publicity, Care Wear's effort to assist hospitalized infants has grown.

About Patternworks
Our Catalogue
How to Place an Order
Books
Tools & Gadgets
Yarn and Buttons
Sweater Kits
Home Decor
Knitting Needles
Visit our Store, too
Contact & Mail Information

Simply Crochet
This website provides crochet news and information about many free crochet patterns available for projects of all kinds, including infant layette items. Check out their resources for easy patterns for beginners as well as more complex patterns. See the crochet patterns for baby afghans!

Smiley's Yarns
92-06 Jamaica Avenue, Woodhaven, NY 11421 Store: 718-849-9873 Mail Order: 718-847-2185 This is a source of yarn at discounted prices.

The Beehive
The little love project provides tiny clothing and memorial quilts for babies who are miscarried or stillborn at Pembury and Maidstone Hospitals in Kent, England. They have now expanded the project to also provide tiny knitted items for babies in the Special Care Baby Unit.

The smallest sizes of commercially available clothes are for babies born over 3lbs. All miscarried babies (born before 24 weeks) and some stillborn babies (born after 24 weeks) are too small for commercial clothes so this project aims to fulfill the need for tiny clothing and to hopefully bring a small amount of dignity and comfort to a heartbreaking situation.

The memorial quilts are made by the Eden Quilters, a friendly group of quilters who meet in Edenbridge (UK) on the last Monday afternoon of each month. They are currently also working on a full size quilt and wall hanging for one of the rooms which is to be refurbished at Pembury hospital. If you would like more information about the Eden Quilters please email her ( lornasimm@yahoo.co.uk).

The Knitting Guild of America
This is the National Association of Hand and Machine Knitters that provides information about knitting. Serious knitters will want to explore this site and membership in this organization.

TKGA Home
Join Today
1998 National Convention
Cast On Magazine
Precious Pals
Educational Programs
Chapters
Knitting Links
Free Patterns

Be sure to check out the collection of links to other organizations, companies, and groups in the WWW of knitting.

The March of Dimes
The March of Dimes was founded in 1938 by President Franklin D Roosevelt to conquer polio. Today, the fight to save babies goes on. The mission of the March of Dimes is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects and infant mortality. This mission is carried out through programs of research, community services, education, and advocacy.

The clothing donation program will support our program/mission activities, in particular, prenatal care incentive programs.

For additional information about the clothing donation program or to coordinate clothing pick-up with your local March of Dimes chapter, call Irene Tzeng at 914-997-4571. To learn more about the March of Dimes and the programs the clothing will benefit, please visit our website at www.marchofdimes.com.

Tiny Little Clothes
This is a website for online shopping for newborns, low birthweight, and preemie needs. Their products include:

Preemie Hospital Wear
Preemie Clothes
Infant Clothes
Preemie Diapers
Gift Sets, Gifts, and toys
Bassinets, co-sleepers, and linens
Preemie birth announcements and preemie books

Touching Little Lives
This is a lovely website with patterns, information, size chart (that we were given permission to reprint on the Care Wear Volunteers website), photos, links, and lots of information. The pattern section has patterns for knitting, crochet, and sewing as well as photos of completed items. Burial garment patterns are available.

Woolworks
Woolworks calls itself the online knitting compendium. Woolworks was formerly known as Online Knitting Magazine. It is the oldest collection of handknitting information on the WWW. Emily Way started the site in 1994. This is a site well worth visiting. It is colorful, well-organized, and full of helpful information.

Patterns
Stores
Craft
Resources
Gallery
About this site

Wisdom Works
"Wisdom Works is the web site of Dr. Mary Stuart, a dear friend of mine who graduated from Hood College three years after I did. She also returned to Hood a few years after graduation. Molly joined the administration and I returned to join the faculty. When Hood opted to phase out "house mothers," Molly lived in Smith Hall and Dick & I lived in Memorial Hall--as transition residence advisors. We have many fond memories of those years.

Molly left Hood to complete a Ph.D. program, served as Dean of Faculty at LaRoche College (Pittsburgh, PA area), and President of Mount St. Vincent College (New York). I stayed at Hood, but moved from the faculty to an administrative position when my academic department was eliminated. During these years we continued to exchange holiday greeting cards/letters, but did not see each other more than four or five times.

Last year Molly decided to pursue other callings. She moved to New Mexico, began writing, accepted speaking engagements, and among other things worked with a friend to develop a website. Because Molly is a caring person who looks for the goodness in everyone and in every event, I thought that some of the visitors to the Care Wear website might enjoy Molly's writings."

Other sites of interest:
http://www.learntoknit.com
http://www.woolworks.com
http://www.knittinguniverse.com
http://www.vogueknitting.com
http://www.knittingnow.com
http://www.thefamily.com/countrycottage/charity
http://users.bigpond.net.au/little-miracles/index.htm
http://www.tinyblessings.com
http://www.knitting-crochet.com/pattern/html
http://www.lonestaryarns.com
http://www.allamericancrafts.com
http://www.thequiltermag.com
http://www.craftworksmag.com
http://www.crochetfantasy.com
http://www.knitnstyle.com